Anne Warkham
Anne Warkham (Wakeham Warkman) is recorded to have married St. Clere Raymond
Below is a family tree showing the marriage. In addition I also have another family tree that was probably created from the same data source.
In both cases I find that the information on Anne Warkham and St. Clere Raymond to be suspect.
The further reference to Warkman (see below - My Maine Heritage) is even more suspect. The data in the tables found are likely to have been filled by an automatic upload of speculative information.
Local sources at Belchamp Walter have no further information regarding this disinheritance. By its nature and the Belchamp Estate being passed to a nephew of the original heir this is not surprising. When the current owner of Belchamp Hall was asked what happend with St. Clere and what he do that was so bad that he was disinherited I was told that they hadn't heard of him. There is no mention of him in family records, he is not buried in the family vault and or course no portraits of him in Belchamp Hall as there are of all the other Raymonds from around this time frame.
I have pretty much abandoned looking for any further information on the Warkham family as it has become clear that the information has been corrupted in many popular Genealogical databases
My Maine Heritage
In an attempt in trying to work out why St. Clere Raymond was disinherited of the Belchamp Hall estate I came across the website created by Kathrine Cole Aydelott. I am pretty sure that I have made the search before and I am assuming that the page is new since I did.
The screenshot below was from the rootsweb.com website which is now no longer active.
The "My Maine Heritage" website was created and maintained by Kathrine Cole Aydelott, MLIS, PhD. - while I admire her work I do think that there is more than a small portion of misinformation being perpetuated through the corruption of the GEDCOM database.
Katherine has some dis-claimer notes on her freepages.rootsweb.com page - as long as it exists. I am not sure if the migration to Reunion came before or after the decision by RootsWeb to discontinue their free hosting. It would seem that there is a measure of the pursuit of a business opertunity on the part of Ancestry.com here.
Lawrence Warkham
Drilling down on the Anne Warkham name reveals an inconsistancy in that the father of Anne was Oliver Raymond, or it is just bad formatting the Reunion for Machintosh provides (My Maine Hertiage).
There is no mention of her father, according to Alan Freer, and as such - no clue to why the Raymonds disinherited St. Clere.
I have searched for Lawrence Warkman to no avail.
John Raymond, the 3rd of Belchamp Hall and son of John Raymond II (of Belchamp Hall), inherited the estate on the death of Oliver Raymond, MP. in 1679. John Raymond III died in 1720 and was succeeded by William Raymond.
A family tree taken from the "Records of the Smythies Family":
